The Sun. — London, England, 1826-11-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TUE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Sir Thomas Lethbridge has hrohen ground already upon the corn question. He took occasion last night to present a petition against any measure for effecting ft change in the law, which, at the tame time,' by some peculiar effort of consistency, he declared Ilia wish to have altered from top t o b o ttom. What the lion. Baronet might consider. an improVement would be no doubt a. proteeifng duty of some 40s. per quarter. koppears that the agriculturists( are now to drive the appointment of a new Committee,—to hives, tigate and report upon the real " operation of the 'Corn Laws,"and to supply materials for What Sir Thomas Lethbridge calls a " deliberate" decision with regard to them. In the apprehension of most impartial men, we be lieve that no dearth whatever of information is experienced, —the reports of former Committees are still extant : that of Mr. Jacob rnig'ht Mime , be 'suffered .to determine , the judgments of those persons who have only the general benefit of the country for their ,object, and are untainted by exclusive and vulgar selfishness. The vicissitudes in the value of labour and property, which, 'since ,the year 1815, have been simidtanethis with the monopoly of corn, are surely matters not often questioned for want of evi dence satisfactory and ample. The ruin of two succes sions of farmers, whom their , landlords in many instances refused' to succour, or indulge in their season of extremity, iu On. record, without the intervention of a Parliamentary Committee. So the gradual decline of the wretched agri-. cultural labourer; frank wages pa which he could support a family with comfort, and recruit his own strength for the recurrence of daily toil, down to that dreadful condition of abject poverty, mental despondency, and comparative de bility of person, in which ve now hvholil him. This too,. lea feet co-existent With, and, in great part, attributable to, the corn laws, which it needs only the' inspection of the parish-hooks of 19 out of 20 counties in England to authen ticate, without troubling a Committee. If, again, the tnanu facture:l of the kingdom lie looked at, with a view to the operation' of the Corn Laws upon them, what is the now nowt result of this—that the high prier of bread had so raised the price of British goods, us to give to foreigners the summand of those markets Which, until the present monopoly was established, had drawn their supplies of Inandattured articles from England, while, at the same ti m e, the fluctuations in the generally excessive price , Of ' bread, have tended to discourage prudent Men from ' that fair course of, manufacturing speculation, which might, under different circumstances, be law , fully and profitably' followed,, throwing the business into the hands of pennyless desperadoea, who shared with their associates of the worst order of country banks, a li ,2entious harvest Iron? the plunder of and poor We *loitild have preowned that circumstances like these, with a multitude of others 'on which 'we cannot now expatiate, might have shamed Sir Thomas Lethbridge out of the ex pedient of a new committee. Three years, the most dis astrous that the agricultural interest (meaning the land lords) Of - this country: have ever seen, were experienced since the monopoly law of JEW; was enacted ! Can Sir Thomas Lethbridge deny the fact, and does it not satisfy him, that if the accursed qstern has proved a scourge to all-the rest of the community, it bps fallsn with'no light hand upo►i those who m vehemently deprecate its abolition. The truth, last night, was: not concealed from any body that the proposal of a committee was nothing else than a feeler thrown out to gain another year, during which the counnittee would sit and examine witnesses, mid adjourn, tied e:saillitie, and adjourn again—delaying their report to the emettl Session of l'a m rliaent, when the politic. Ba ronet migh t trust to the chapter of accidents for some lucky mewls of securing his monopoly, until a general war in Europe should present him with u full stieeeduneum for it, in fresh loans, fresh inundations of paper, trebled prices, and immeasurable rents. • Prom this worthy device of the West Country Cientlemen, we hope the Ministers will have enough of sagacity to preserve. us. Lord Althorp took the right road when be :urged them to disclose their plans at once to the .country, ;mei to tramitiolee the wow . agiteted and uncertain temper of Mail Initulti.—Tiflics. It is some eare ago, we believe, and et the tunic Whim We OVeltSiOlitaly , Itaw Cobbett's weekly productions, that we regretted the injury which he did to the country, by taking the constitutional side of any question which might arise, and so fixing the reproach of his alliance upon re specteble men, to whom, in spite of all they could say or do, he would unite himself; and we recollect •vva then, made the following .comparition :—We likened the person' above mentioned to an ugly bear, who hail served to amuse a ship's company while the winds were boated, and ;be water smooth : but when &tiger assailed, and the estsv jumped into the : long-boat, in the hopes of saving t h e i r ()wit lives and towing their ehattered vested to place oi."NifeLY, they are all in danger of being stink by the enormous v5".4910t anti anti-tricks of this brute, who Could „„ t b e „ gt „i„,,N.l from jumping overboard along with them. A respectable Parr*" is in danger of suffering the same mis chief from ii Similar ca,:`", Out the bear, in the preitteit instance, iet the first that .itstputlently takes possession of the long-boat ; and being ) 7. o r* Ann usually ofensive, from some prey which he lied lai ,,nl been deVi:l4lll"ft, but few hands, and they most unwillingly, 'Would enter ie.* with and the : ship's pinnace was afterwards fitted out foe,' the uwre . prudent owl steady seamen., The Papists have . a node'', that there exists :t certain obduracy olheart, which renders amen's conversion iinpossible, mid thet such men may, therefore, ultimately be pardoned for. their he . resy, through infinite compassion. , There is also a moral insensibility in some natures Which renders those who possess it incuptible of the feeling of Arum T 0 no, and to most others we believe, it would have ap. Treated incredible that a matt stained .with the possession rid' the funds of the poor Greeks, could have appeared in airy country us the advoCate of popular rights, us the pre= tended guardiait of a suffering. people's money--as an enemy to the. invasion of a tiatiou's purse. Surely the people of Englend only, say, in the words of the haeknied quotation, " Non tali auxilio."-11id. No public event, we can confidently affirm, has fur a long time given more unmixed satisfaction to people of all ranks and degrees than his Majesty's personal tippearance on the openieg of the new Parliament. T he ext r aordinar y events of the last thirty years,' which have produced revo . , lotions iii some countries, and convulsions in others, have iis this mile tended in their result to sober down and con firm the right feelings end good sense of the inhabitants of these kingdoms into a more staid and firm 'conviction of the iniatunable blessings of that Conatitution, Which, ander ii Kingly Government, secures to the people the ad..' yun:ta ex of a ClOVernment emanating from themselves, and alike towered 'froth the arbitrary rules of despotism, the grinainftf .tYranny,ef an oligarchy, and the factions do minion of ;mililiter demagogues. flowever we may : differ among otirse.ves, ICIOI. however uuititelligible in strict theory, t h e Ceitstitutiatt of these realms may to some ap peer to be, 110 0110 Wilo hall closely viewed it can fail to set that, in its practical consequences,- i t approaches nearer to perfection in Government - than any ,ayst ero ,w hi e h t h e Wisdom of mini has hitherto devised. Of this simian the King is the central and grand orb, tow ar d, whior the vitties and a l-lee:done of all men are direet e d and we tat m., fulsome eulogists of his present Majesty w h en we lee . .inert, Lieu no King of this countr y. everlkea niers com • otiona of a ? sill his subjects it iv: ilk hap pines* and clot td 11 y pletely the affe na course 0 . nat. ure I ' trougat hfii 40. he exercise of power than ho„ been Mal"tY 'll° talc but • no man ee n l oo k the lot of 'Most other Soverelg, 4.,00Cti the m i. - is Majesty At.re ign baelt to the period when h. heequently as; King, Witho ut of power as Regent, end en 1 ' this ott ary has been pronouncing it. to be one wax , . „ w ay ,404. smirked by e.eontinued series of ne tionat proi, . 'greatness which hag 110 t only never been eurpassed r even equalled. Whatever difference of opinion may exist, tas to particular measures, 011.1 i however we may' a ll regret articular culamitiea and disadvantages, no man who is a •Jispassionute;inletirer lifter truth, can hesitate to declare and Oa, that the :Ki t es ha s , during every 1110111ellt of ftiki life, ,evinced the moat anxious desire to do every thingt in his power to advance the public interests of the country, anti to alleviate its local distresses. No wonder then that the good sense and fight feeling of the country should be di- rieted with affectionate regard towards his Majesti, and t at his appearance among his people on Tuesday, upon t le solemn inauguration of the National Connell, should ,i have been hailed on all hands with unalloyed tokens of sincere and ardent attachment. We sincerely hope that tlie hpecimenof ardent and unbought affection which his Majesty experienced on that occasion may induce him to mix more , frequently with his subjects. If there is any feeling more truly enviable than another, it is the entit- O a stic attachment of subjects to their Ruler. This it is the good fortune of the King to possess, if not in a superior de gree, at least in an equal one to any Monarch that ever swayed an earthly sceptre; and we are sure that we ex press the anxious wishes of nine hundred and ninety per song in every thousand of the people of those realms when we declare that the oftener his Majesty shows himself among them, the oftener he will give them the means of evincing to him, that however they may differ among each other, and from his Ministers on particular points of civil policy, theramxists, towards the Kingly office, and towards i ts present.possessor in particular, but one feeling of honest and heartjrattechment.—Morning Herald„ It is observed, - . by a very ingenious Italian Philosopher, that— • • " Governments generally take their • character from the cha racter, of the people ; that if the people are more ambitious thau rational, the Rulers will be the same; and that if the people per ceive their mistake, the Government» 'nest in turn abandon their attempts to -ileccive. It is an error originating in ignorance, sloth, and popular delusion, to impute to Governments the defects and crimes which are ascribable to the people themselves. The feet is, that if a people, of whom the greater part are poor and hood-winked, expect that their Govenunent will undeceive end benefit them, they will find themselves every day more deceived and more wretched ; and for the truth of this I apical from the vulgar herd of politicians to experience • whiCh does riot deceive." When - we consider the extraordinary support which Ministers receive from the strange infatuation of many Members of the house of Commons, whose good haten tionS cannot be questioned, we are almost tempted to Sub ', scribe' to the - aboire poSitions. It is adMitted on all hand's that tazAtion has been curried in this country to an eic treme, wbieb, : great us our resources are, is felt to be no longer supportable. Distress pervades all ranks and classes of the community, and hundreds of thousands of manufactur ers, able and willingto work, have long been subject to priva-' tions, under which life is a eurse,and now beg to be removed- froth If hind where wretchedness is their only portion. That the sulterings of the people are mainly attributable to excessive taxation, is almost universally allowed. In fact, heavy as the taxation appears to - be, when compared with that of every other country in the world, it is still heavier than what it is usually thought ; for immense sums arc levied in this country for local purposes, to which, in other coon tries, the taxes are assigned. Under most of the Govern ments of the Continent, the Church, Education, the Admi.i. nistiation of Justice, the Maintenance of the Poor, the , P - lice, &e., are paid by the State. For all these objects, im mense sums are separately paid by the people of England; the County Rates alone equalling the whole revenue of many a Continental Kingdom. The Revenue of England is not expended in the disch4rge of what are considered, elsewhere, the chief functions of Government (for it is notorious, that for justice even, the first duty of every Government, the salaries of a few Judges in the metro polis are all that Government has paid), but is chiefly devoted to idle or useless purposes. Nature having se cured us from hostikattack, if ever there was a nation in the world of which the burdens ought to be light, it is Eng land. But so far from this, we have always devoted more to our establishMents than other nations ; the people have been cajoled into the notion, that the national grandeur required us td meddle with the affairs of every country in the world, and to. be prepared to support our preten sions; and lest, with every disposition on the part of Government to spend, there should still be a want of objects, there , is not a_quarter of the world where we have not contrived to Grid room for establishments, aml pretexts in . Maintaining for phtudering Vile poor starving creatures at home where they Call get work, fourteen hours a :lay iu cotton-mills, to support the na tional glory--that is, to enable Lord Johns and Lord Cltarleses to riot in luxury. But when the shocking con trust between extravagant establishments in every quarter, end a population in the utmost extremity of distress, is pointed 'out' -in the House of -Commons, Ministers have only to repeat a few of the usual cajoling phrases, and the House is struck dumb. It is .of no use to blame the Mi- nisters ; it is the House whieh is to blame, We have surely paid quite enough for the miserahle ambition of controul lug Continental Governments. Good God ! have we not deeply mortgaged the industry of ourselvea and' our children, and el ibi r eits.a ebildren, in Quixoticar attempts of all sorts during the lust and present century ? There is not one object for which we have gone to war hitherto, which • would justify war to any rational mind. At one time we fought for trade, which cannot be conquered; at another, we fought to put clown,lacobi nism ; the ' cause of quarrel never was wanting ; the justifivation always. But Honourable Members are as much in love With this impertinent interference of ours as ever. Large armemente are necessary now to protect ' Portugal from Spain and France, and so forth ! That is, an armament is,required at a time when any armament that 4 .,,,• can keep up must be unavailing ! When Bonaparte the people ,of Germany, whom WAS St11.).2.11"11 chiefly by it was in the power of Oppression Irl7.'ed against him, the Eligif the i,h G oye o'nent to have turned the balance in favour o people. ' .r . ,, 1 2at Government countenanced, on the contrary, the Stateinitia. (may his name never be ,pronounced by Englishmen but with abhorrence!), who lent himself With such good will to the, rulers of the Continent. in all theirlprejects against independence. When the Nations, impatient of the yoke, rose on their oppressors, and popular Governments were established in some of the fairest portions of Europe, the least countenanee from England .would have paralysed the trembling Despots .of . the Continent, , England counte nanced the Despots, and intrigued for them. Austria was allowed to reduce .Italy ; France was allowed to con quer and retain Spain. Every where Constitotiorial rights wereproseribed ; and the bayonet gave law to tha whole Continent. But Portugal has chosen to have a COPillitT• tional Governinent, and as Spain has the same right to put down a Constitutional Government in Portugal.which Aurtria had to put it down in Piedmont and Naplea, and France in Spain, it longs to exercise that right. It is quite clear, that if France chooses to allow Spain to put down the Constitution of Portugal, our Cl,thament will' pot be up obstacle.: The obstacle must be in the diaposition of France , herself, which our armament cannot . influence. The idea of England, with a taxation so oppressive as an d a population begging to threaten a Bankruptcy, for banishment from her shores, protecting Portugal against France and the floly Alliance is preposterous. Force thew is useless, when it can h.ave no object. If the Per tuguese wish a Constitution, they can establish it them selves, without the assistance of English ships; if they du not wish one, why then the English ought not to cram it down their throats. : ,In: vvety point of view, an arma ment is ridiculous. The 'cause pt Constitutional Go yernments was lost with Spain and Italy, And to think of ,gsining a triumph over the Holy Alliance, by keep ing Portugal sacred to liberty, is ludicrous enougb. But Portugal pia Sri ancient ally. If, however, we dare not fight tot Piartugal, there is no use in making a show ,of protection, ;flltipli we cannot really Five. It becomes us iii the . nretient eonjuncture, nistelut of , allowing ourselves to be cajoled by the high snionlinglanguage of Ministers, who, as long us they Si e themsel ves surrounded by long-eared Members, will never want fine pretexts for touching' the pockets of an oppress `t`ile.°l), k . , to abandon , for a season our follies, tel remember "'" m , i • mily remedy for profligate waste is severe econo my; W s W i ff',9nr expenees with our ability, instead of making 0,:," "In4iry the rule for nor treneeti; to think rather of paying °, 1 • 11 : Aeto than of contracting NO OP e 6 a bY ti r ri e le n , e% t v it e • ) w i e ° l l !?y i T y' l l 'i e tY , e ; Z id att l eTn ri et ic hy pu ;ig . °e t!: efi4' for t f - d P o en w t i a i ll it ee ju l d; ') e u i r it i rti nl o c ur r se n :v ili e ci s "d- s' ; l aic d of drawing of a patient and suffering peopie.trythoernifuirwthcerooptpicriees.sion LAW INTELOGENCE COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 22:: The Chief .1 usticee of the Court, of King', Bench and Comtnon Pleas,tnet Allis day, with the Lord,Cbancellur,,to assist his Lord ehip in giving judgment in the ey.isoi,of YV4ite v. Witty, which was * question dependent on the terms of a ►ill made by a person named James Allan, by Avhich he devised large estates in Cam bridgeshire to Mary Pearce Chief Justice llesT.and Chief Justice ABBOTT, concurred in deciding the multifarious points submitted to their consideration, in favour of the plaintiff,' M. P. White. 'the Loan CHAWCZLLOR thanked the learned Judges for the assistance they had rendered him, and directed the case to stand over fur his judgment on Friday neat. . The Court was occupied with this case the greater part of the day. . COURT OP BENCH, Nov . . 22. THE xINQ V. TOW. INII•SITANT9 OF TONBILIDOR. This WAS am appeal againet an order of the Quarter Sessions of Kent, for the removal of a pauper from the Parish of Lainhorough. —Case dismissed. HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, Nov. 22. (Before Lord STOWELL.) CAPTURE OF PIRATES. . The Kme's ADVOC#TIC applied for head-money fur 58 men, who were proved to have been pirate,. He stated that the enter prise was a most gallant one, anti, he submitted, eminently de serving of the consideration of the Court. The facts of the case were as follow.:—His Majesty's cutter Grecian was employed on the Jamaica station in November, 1823, and the Commander hay- ing received intimation that a piratical schooner was off the coast of Campeachy, plundering the merchantmen, he sailed, for ,that coast, but the pirates having received information of his approach ran the schooner ashore, and escaped in two canoes. The Captain of the Grecian then went on shore, and demanded from the Spanish Governor that the pirate vessel should be given up as a prize, but as some of the inhabitants of San Pedro claimed the schooner, as their property, which had been captured by the pirates, the commander of the Grecian gave up his claim to the schooner. The commander of the Grecian then procured a Spanish Mecca, the , crew of which .consisted of 11 Spaniards, and putting on board ten of the crew of the Grecian, under the I command of Joseph Oxendon, the mate of the Grecian, anti ona' 10-pound carronade, he directed that the felucca should sail to-, wards the Wend of San Pedro, where he learned that the pieltee bad regularly established themselves, erecting a telegraph, and. taking other precautions to prevent thennielves from being cur-, prised. The commands given to Oxendon, were to e n deavour to' decoy the pirates out to s ea; when the commander of the Grecian intended, that if the felucca should he at tacked, the Grecian might come to her waistline*. A heavy gale , suddenly rising however, the Grecian was forced to sea during the night. At day-break next morning a number of fishing boats and two large canoes filled with armed men, were obServed coming from San Pedro towards the felucca. Upon the approach of the boats, the crew of the felucca, which eonsisted of ! Spaniards, ran below deck and created so much cone fusion, that the canoes were alongside the felucca before the ten men,belonging to the Grecian could bring the carronade to bear: The pirates then commenced a smart fire on the felucca, calling on the crew to surrender; but Oxendon and his small party gallantly returned the fire, and after killing three men belonging to the canoes, they both sheared off, still keeping up an irregular fire on the felucca. The felucca continued her fire until the pirates got on shore, when, after pulling up their canoes on land, they endeavoured to retreat into. the woods ; bit the men belonging to the Grecian landing, and still pursuing them, they returned to the shore, and Wring to their boats, put off to sea. One of the canoes finally escaped, but the other; con taining a crew of fifteen men, was captured by some Indians off the Island of Molliera, and ten out of the fifteen were subsequently hanged as pirates at Jamaica. Under all the circumstances, he moved the court to decree head-money for thirty-six men, which had been sworn were on board the two canoes, when they attack ed the felucca. Lord *rowx4 said that he did not see how die Court could grant head-money on the boat's crew of the canoe which escaped. It WWI better to take a decree for, the three men who were killed, and the fifteen, Who were subsequently captured. .The claim for head-money for the eighteen men who escapes!, was a matter which the Court would take time to consider. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 22. 1 . 1411 A fiSICISICIIII or .10W WATTS, A BANICRIIrr, ty. JOHN VI ATTK, 7AItN. OWZN, AND •OTTIRAII. Mr. l'osui.sticom moved the court fur an order to restrain the defetelantr, who were trustees to a certain deed, wherein the interest of 4,000/. in the Three per Cent. Console, was made over to , the defendant, Mrs. Owen, from transferring tee principal or receiving the interest, till the judgment of the Court bed been given, as the Rule to show cause had been granted. The bank rupt had been a banker„ and had executed the deed in question, conveying the said sum for the life-intereat of the defendant, Mrs. Owen, to whom he bad been married only seventeen days before he became a bankrupt. Tke Learned Counsel, therefore, con tended, that, tinder circumstance., which savoured so strongly of a fraudulent preference, the principal anti interest of the said , sum should he secured to the assignees till the judgment was given. Mr. MAUTIN, for the defendants, observed, that when the Court heard the peculiar circumstances of oppression on which this bill was grounded, he was certain it would feel , a very different itu pression in this case. The bankrupt was a banker, in apparently affluent:circumstanees, and the defendant, Mrs. Owen, a young widow, residing with the mother, and possessed of property amounting to nearly 1,0001. The bankrupt, from being inti mate with the fatuity, ultimately married her, and received her money. This took place in 1823, and the bankrupt then gave her a deed of settlement, in case of separation, for 0,000/. 3 per cent. Consols.. 1n .; 169.5, she discovered , that 1w had another wife living; elm of course insisted on a separation, and eousented on 4,0001. Console being transferred into the name of trustees, for her use, to give up the former deed fOr 5,000/4 and a general release as to her own money. The bankruptcy was declared 17 daYs afterwards, and this unfortunate woman, after being depri ved of any claim on the money she had given up, by a most cruel deception, thinking the bankrupt was in geed circumstances, world, if the Court did not protect her, be now reduced to beggary. The Coons commented strongly on the fraudulent conduct of the banker to the unfortunate women, who had confided in him, and trade an order to restrain tide trustees from transferring the principal, but would not interfere with the interest, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Mokrey, an officer of the Cue t•onlioi way brought before the Loon MAYOR, an a charge of having committed an assingt on Monsieur Moreau a French iilk-mercer the Loan MAYOR ordered the defendant' to find bail to answer for the assanit: CiIiII.DHALL.—A respectable looking young man, named Jahn APlntorit, an . engraver, appeared, before Mr. Ahlernutu AweLey yesterday, upon a summons, charged with violently as. nuking and beating Mr. James Pool, a philosophical instrument mart:hunt, residing iitMonkwell-street, falcon-square. The complainant's atatement was, that haying beard M'lntosh had circulated a lie respecting hint, be sent him a note, desiring a meeting in Qough-square on Monday light, " to decide a Ines tion." 111 r. Niqato o h ulnte, , a ccompanied by a dozen or I o ruf fians, awl without waiting fin. verbal explanations, knocked him again and till wit ness expec t& he by beaten withi n deeply down, quite in a scientific style. This dose lie repeated, an inch of his life, and lie was right happy to find an opportunity of running away. Ile lost a yplypt collar from his neck, and had a sharp struggle to Prevent h i s b at f ront being carried away by a thief: lie handed up , i n conc l us i on , a c h a llenge he lied received from the defendant, ca lli ng on hi m t o me et him in White Con:. duit-terlds, at seven o'clock in the morning, to engage in a trial of The defendant 4endered anothpr. letter, containing a challenge fro.° Mr. Pool, which had produced the totter, the complainant bad put is. He also t ot w er m a sepowl letter frein Pool, the lart gPege ofwhichthe defendant thought Sufficiently justified the cliastisemenP he had given Mr. Pool. • .The Ableruitoi 4 41tWt read any portion of the lettere, but he said they were iuldressed to tbe iltfonflent's father and mother, and were couched in a manner exceedingly disgrecerwl to 44, No, The defendant said he could not, paseively. wee his parents so g Pnol, and that the complainant brought th e assaultrsi) f, by being the first to scud a formal challenge. 4 P I PYO',. senior, was anxious to be heard, and began, .. Mr. Pool, rny . Son..bA tm ,, ,, .. Don't call toe yoni s in'n,* Old the "mplailant, interrupting iaiia ; 1 inarrio..il your bastard, but this giveli you no right to. call me son-in-law." The old &rifleman made another effort to be heard, but Mr. lignin interrupted hi m , f or the purpose of infor m i ng the Al- dipnan tinit h m qrrierl Anse Miliitosh on account of he r p ro mised fortune, lied 'never yet Peep able to gel a shilling of the money. Mr. APlol].sh, senior, it P eep succeeded in stating, the con- P 11 ; 444 1)0 openly declared determination- to proyokp 1110 defendant to fight 44) 4 previous night. Mr. Pool admitted if, and Admitted further, that he was armed With a horse Whip, which he meant to have applied to the shoul ders of young Wlntosh, if the latter had not commenced too ra pidly for him. There was asingularity of manlier, a feeling of self-importance and a show of courage about Mr. Pool, who is a small deli- Cate man, which frequently excited a grin against him during a lengthened hearing, which terminated in his being Severely re proved by the magistrate for addressing such aggravating letters to his wits parents, and in his being himself bound to keep the peace for & twelvemonth, as well as the younger Mr. Wlntosh. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday the driver of a Reading coach, 1615, was brought before Mr. Mixsnurx, the presiding magis trate, charged under the provisions of an Act of Parliament, with wantonly and furiously driving his coach, so as to endanger the lives and properties of Collin Cottam and Jeremiah tiateson, two soldiers belonging to the let Regiment of Grenadier Guards. The coachman, in his defence, denied in, Coto the charge of _ _ • . w-- . _ auitonly'driving. His coach, he said, was going steadily along when the soldiers " popped suddenly" out of a small door in Pic cadilly, and crossed his way before be had time to pull up. A tradesman residing in Charing-cross, of whose respectability, Sir R. Birnie said, there was no doubt, tame forward on behalf of the coachman, and swore positively that the defendant's coach, on the roof of which he was a passenger, at the time, was not proceeding faster than the usual pace at which hackney-coaches proceed through the streets of London. Mr. Mumma, then observed, that the evidence was ten to one iu favour of the complainants, and lie therefore felt it his duty' 'to convict the coachman in the penalty of 51., which sum, how ever, he would reduce to 2!. 10s., on the evidence of the defend nut's witness, who denied on his oath the charge of furious driv ing. In giving this decision, he wished it to be understood that coachmen should give way to the military, when the latter had possession of the road. The case, owing to the constant interruption and annoyance occasioned by the marching of soldiers in ranks through the crowded streets of the metropolis, of which frequent complaints have been made by the public, caused a good deal of interest, and the decision of the worthy Magistrate did not afford much midis faction, as it seemed to decide, iu a great measure, the question, whether the military or the public are bound to give way in cases of this description. . • MARLHOROUGH-STREET.—Madame Marie, a dress maker, living in St. James's-street, in this parish of St. James, appeared yesterday at this office, upon a charge of having Prohi bited and run goads in her possession well knowing'them to be so. Smith said that he had made seizures at 'the defendant's house three different times before. The Solicitor also said that she had been convicted before the Court of Exchequer, and at Ilatton-garden Police-office, for of fences of a similar nature to the present. Mr. Sherry, a friend of the defendant's, stated, that a parcel of yelloW silk, of 50 yards, seized by the officer, was not foreign, lit of British manufacture. From the excellence of the quality, it was not easy for every one to , judge of it, but he knew the difference. There was also a piece of India muslin, that was not liable to seizure, as such articles were publicly sold every day at the India llciuse. Such goods as the latter were purchased by Messrs. Brown, Rogers, and Brown, of Cheapside. This firm sold them to other persons, and Madame Marie might have put" chased them from a third or a fourth person. How was it pos sible for her to proVe that they had regularly- paid the duty, as she could not be supposed to be cognizant of such a circumstance? The Magistrate, Mr. ROE and Mr. DYER, were of opinion that a provable cause had been made out by the solicitor of the Customs against the goods seized. It was then the duty of Madame Marie to meet the case. She had done so far as the yellow silk and the Indian muslin were concerned, and they would give her au opportunity of doing the same by the whole, against that day week. Madame Marie returned thanks for the Magistrates' kindness, and left the office. The penalty is recorded against the goods not accounted for, until the next hearing. PETITION OF W. JONES, Esq., MARSHAL OF THE KING'S BENCH PRISON. PRESENTED TOWARDS the CLOSE of the LAST SESSION. To the Right Honourable the Lord. Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, The Humble PETITION of WILLIAM JONES, Esq. Marshal of his Majesty's Prison of the King's Bench ; Stmarrx---That your Petitioner has teen Marshal of the King's Bench Prison for the last thirty-five years, and that during that time he has been enabled, without any cost for charges to the Government, 'though at a very considerable annual ezpence to himself, to keep his prison free from contagioui and infectious disorders, and to preserve the health of the prisoners committed to his custody front injury, by reason of .the •confinemeut of their persons : That a Bill has been sent up from the Honourable House of Commons for the approbation of your Right Honourable House, as a constituent branch of the Legislature, entitled, " A Bill to amend and consolidate the . ' Laws for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England :" That the said Bill contains a clause, which compels the pri soners, intending to apply for relief under tke said 13111, when it shall become law, to he in actual custody within the walls of the prison, at the time of applying for relief, and thus prevents then: front residing within the rules of the King's Beach Prison, in like manner as other prisoners not seeking for such relief are per mitted to do: That in consequence of this provision, which has been .carried into the before-mentioned Bill, from the Act of the sth Geo. IV. cap. 61, sec. 12, entitled an Act to amend certain Acts for the re lief of insolvent debtors in England, the prison of the King's Bench has become so crowded with prisoners, that your Petitioner has every cause to be alarmed for the health of the prisoners com mitted to his custody, the more especially as the weather is daily becoming ,warmer, and the number of prisoners is as constantly augmenting : . That your Petitioner, therefore, entertains the most serious fears, that, unless something be done for the relief of the prison, an infectious and 'contagious disorder most ensue, the conse 4ueneei of which there is but too great reason to apprehend, from the present crowded state of the prison, must be fatal to a vast number of the priioners, and deeply injuriout to the bodily health and constitutions of all who should unfortunately be submitted to its baneful influence That in order that your Right Honourable House may be enabled to judge of the grounds on which your Petitioner is led to apprehend this misfortune, your Petitioner craves leave to state, that prior to the commencement of this present Easter Term (via. before the 12th of April), the 'number of prisoners within the walls of this prison averaged 600, and that since that ,time the number has greatly increased ; and, on the 20th of this cnr rent month, amounted to 628, besides the officers of the establish ment, and the other necessary attendants on the nick and infirm, making a total of very little, if any, short of7oo souls within the walla, and which nnmber, it is expected, will be augmented as the term advances, and particularly in the approaching Trinity Term : That previous to the peeving of the before-mentioned clause, the number of prisoners within the walls averaged between 4 and 500 ; and even then the number of persons obliged to live and sleep in one MOM was nearly three, and now the average number of persons to one room is nearly four, and subject to daily aug nieutAtion: House, and with a v i ew t o s h ow t h at t h e That for. the furth er i n f ormat i on o f your Ri g ht H ono u ra bl e Present crowded state of the prison is p ro d uce d b y t h e operat i on o f t h e b e fore-m e ntioned prohibitory clause, your P e titi oner . humbly begs leave to lay be fore your Ri g ht H onoura bl e R ouse t h e f o ll ow i ng statement, sis,— From the Ist July, 1623, t o i s t J a n. 1824, &Vora the passing of the sth Gen. IV. cap. 61, flee. 12, 2bl prisoner's took the rules. . • From the Ist July, 1824, to Ist January 182 f, after the pass -182.5, after th e ing of the said A c t, 188 p r i soners took the rules. o Deficiency in number 69. From the bit January, 1824, to , I st March, 1824, Lejiore the Prom the let January, b Geo. IV. e. 61. s ec . 12. was passeil,l3l pi - honors took the ru l es . 15th Geo. IV. c. 61. see. 12, was p assed, 61 prisoners took the roles. 1825, to let March, it u m' be perc l e 2 iv . e n d ot th b s e t o i l n:l a t fi e se t a itu . e com prehended have resided Within the walls , . Deficiency in number 70. pre }i' i r e e n in ded thi w s i s t t i a ,i te n n i i t e , n i t, ,, of the prison, over and above the number that would have dons *u ' T h i a la d t ti :L 6t a i bi ' at , G r o . f i th V e . b e e . fo G r i e:in lia e c n . tioned clause,_ was to diminish othipL i. : p rison er s :o bi s: t e l l: a, rel h i v r e f a tin o t h ie t r ai t i b le e d; ls i o ay lve l t Debtors Act* direct check upon the fraudu lentithprdeisgoe4ndneuliulhe)ietr;ictl;eneadlnflioas4't:Tpeetrrilamtaet, 1 at B s t a' ', i b efore i''l IIK r o t f li c e o b m' C a e it o7 e l n V tl . l c t . o fi t r sec . 32. was Palmed, and in Michaelmas Term, 1824, after that clause was passed, were as tollows:.—.. In Michaelmas Term, 1823 SS I In Michaelmas Tenn, 1824- -Malting a difference of seven only, and clearly demonstrating the ineffipianey of the measure to attain the desired purple. • • That in consequence of the crowded state of the prison, and the many perional inconveniences which the prisoners mut of necessity endure, 'disturbances and quarrels are perpetually arising, and a most fruitful source for fraud and imposition has bees opened. That your Petitioner will not presume to point out to your Lordships the effect of this state of things upon the morale and habits of the prisoners, or attempt to show bow decency mil propriety must be invaded, when so many individuals are Com pelled to live and sleep in one room, the else of which is 14 feet by 12 feet, and about eight high. He will leave this to the consideration of your Right Hon. House, nothing doubting but that your Lordships will not fail to perceive its demoralizing effects, and how extremely pernicious it must be, not alone to the health, but also to the religious and moral feelings of the prisonen. That your Petitioner is ready to verify the facts, in Isis petition too your Right Hon. House, when, where, and in suds manner se your Right Hon. House shall require. Your Petitioner, therefore, most humbly prays your Bight Hon. House to take the state of his Majesty's prison of the King's Bench, into your consideration, and grant such relief in the premises, as your Right Hon. House shall deem most expedient. And your Petitioner shall ever pray, &c. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY, SATURDAY, Nov. 25. (At the Court of Commissioners.) Boys, T., Ludgate-hill, bookseller-10 Brownell, J., Spitalfields, silk manufacturer-10 Carpenter, W., Leadenhall-street, woollen draper—l o Creswell, T., Cross-lane, fish factor-11 Kenworthy, J. and J. 8., Ironmonger-lane, warehousemen- -10 Parkinson, W., Soho, carver and gilder-11 Penny, G., Rood .lane, coffee broker—lo Schlesinger, M. S., Stainford.etreet, merchant—l Scott, W., Lower Brook-street, victualler-1 0 Walker, R., Oxford-street, butcher—l 1 COUNTRY DIARY, FkIDAY, Nov. 24. Bunn anti Allen, Worcester—Hope inn, Worcester—I 2 Wood, J., Wooldale, Kirkburton--Packhorse, Hudderitieltl-12 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED. Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Liueolu's-inn-fields, I as __ den, Nev. 27, at Nine. Davis, T., jun., Tower-hill, upholsterer Evens, W., Commercial road East, milkman Ford, S., Westminster, linen draper Glendining, A., jun., Colchester, barge-master Hadgraft, J., Strand, lodging-house-keeper Hall, T., Finsbury-square, dealer Kirby, J., Hoxton New Town, fishmonger Longbotham, W., Gorton, Manchester, cordwitiner Mayo, H., Walworth, clerk Purchase J., Bath, grocer Sugden, S., Bradford, butcher Turner, W., Edgeware-road, grocer Townley, J., Hoxton, carver Wells, E., Camberwell, green-grocer Williams E., Rotherhithe, dealer COUNTRY.--At the Court-house, Shrewsbury, Nov.°lbex' at Ten. Asterley, R., Shrewsbury, attorney Bowen, W., Shrewsbury, tailor Cranage, J., Wellington, attorney Marks, J., Shrewsbury, weaver Mouris, 8., Shrewsbury, butcher Nightingale, J., Norbury, farmer At Brecon, same day, at Ten. Price, J., Crickadarn, farmer At Chester, same day, at Nine. Lovatt, J., Derby, publican Reece, R., Chester, bricklayer Waring, J., Chester, draper Williams, S., Chester, publican Same place, same day, at Ten. Bower, J., Wilmslow, cotton-spinier Greenhalgh, G., Bury, surgeon Proctor, T., Congleton, butcher Shepley, W., Newton, huckster Swann, W., Stockport, watch-maker Turner 0., B rms Inollington, n, in Mold, Flintshire, Vitti , stone-mason I. l ov. a t Evans, R., volywell, tailor Hughes, 8., liolywell, t a ilor Joao), Eytun, farmer SHIPPING INTELLI GEN E FROM LLOYD,S.--1,40y. 22. n }LICE—The D i do Kelleck, ( Yom Smyrna, and is under quarantine ceeded for the River. Enchantl' Dam., Nov. 21.— . W d ig . ryd and Hannah have P l°. Porrassovrts, Nov. 2 1 , —Witid Easterly.—Arrived, toe ..___ Bo from Batavia. Sailed, the John Freeman, from Muir" and iton the K. S. Nov, Chapman for London. Lockyer, PLvalov-rst, Noo . ...Wind K—Arriv , d, Arrived the Sarah t ie Canno' Leghorn; Eliza Ann,,Wade, from Marseilles • and the Oen ( tw o ' Kent, from Quebec. The Speculatio.l, from ' Plyinoti th t !, ) , n u ebec t° ward's Island, was spoken huh Oct ; also the illalvioa,.frout'a in greiii the West Indies, Vith Oct, lat. 434.. long. SS, she distress, having sprung a dangerous leak, and was itrobeng the Hero, arrived at Plymouth, from Douglas. , , LICI" t 1.0 A - tr 't is NVEzpoen, Nov. W. The Flora, from Liverpool to t it , ler, n od, i the entrance of the harbour on Saturday, and filled with .aa • , • feared, will be lost. buil° front lla' a Ails, GRAVZSIIND, Nov. 21.—Arrived, the Hero, Want* - ditto; • &an cho, Smales, Gray, from St. Petersburgh ; John, Bennett, ..- jsmi ies ; can . 'llndall, from Quebec. Sailed, the Reward, Hogg . °r and Oe arge Farmer, for St. Vincent's ; ,Hope, Cocks, for Corfu ; Ililig, Napier, for Grenada. ion liar` The Friskett, from Tralee to Liverpool, is lost in ran and theßJeovipi an assistance nY • 4 . IV. h. S 4 s o rt hUnl'"" W. E. adas '0 W. 11 :- t ' ,t. 1 14 '9l 0 W. I ""ger. , " 0 W IV3 ' fieNl% . Trad , r e 4, „ dainstii 34 I.Yon si b Ed en 0. 3 1 4 3 3 3 ,01 Nedlislo ....-::,(• 3 W*l l4 E n `, , 1 ,1011 , E. )04. 'HE MARKETS s. d. 8ea55m0nL—........... 31 9 33 6 Eighton 31 0 Heaton 34 9 Hebburn Main—. 34 0 I leworth Prim rose 32 6 Warren 32 0 Liddell's Main...-. 30 0 Ord's Redhugh 29 0 Percy 32 0 Ships at Market IAL MARKET.—Nov. i. d. PontopWlistlsor.... 30 0 Pontop Simpson— SO 0 Tanileld Moor-.... 35 0 V 0 Willington—.—.— 35 0 WallsEndliewicke36 d W. E. Brown's.— 33 0 'W. E. Green's—. 33 0 W. E. Hilda 39 W. E. Hotspur 33 6 W. E. Nernst/web 95 0 07—Ships sold, 134 i. Wheat realized an CORN EXCRANOt-•tll000d f re4b —.—.--......—....--- .. The Corn Exchange to-day was well attended. I , . a iiiiei may be considered a i d d v . an it) :e ntl i d f g.o. 2 pe d. r riuptte)lirit I::d,leloar.suecautiaisigi'a Mt ct:fu2r),:, day. Oats Were i n ___., i 1 d were lu• P er " lb ' dearer Beans and Pease are held at so j ad vsn !ob. to s 2*. per quarter ; and Grinding Barley , at! .. ,,'w s 9.-. Per t) i' d r, ; No material alteration in other articles. 01 1' 4- n . hel is 6°l ' l ss. V. for pri me R e d, an d b , 6d, for prime .-autzc, , 1„r demanded demanded ; 1,900 barrels sour D . sonic Flour have been $ Ol4 lug the week, at 18*. per barrel. . s. oto .• (:* 9 9s 9 3 0 0 s ° 2 7 6 " 0 0a 0:0 0 oao 4 10 a 5 9 O 0a 0 ° 4 6a 4 jo 4 0a 4 9 O 0 0 0 0s d 411 o. a 44 0 48 0 a 40 0 O 0 a 3 0 2 0 a Ws 94 0 41 0 a 43 .0 49 0 II al 0 a •-• Oa-" u I Deans. rase. Wheat. rats. Bailey. llYe• 56 oa4B 0 „ oa -- —l Os— 0 a 0 , 1 wroar Or Gatos foLthe Work e nding Nal:4011 fl' i r' s j, 9rs. Qrs. Qrs , 011. Qrs. Qrs. Sack , ' f,os 7,400 0,7113 10130 1,866 3,011 7 O,OBY Flour. 00 90 MARRIED. ts • telt tit ' On the 21st inst. , at the Friends' bleating-booze, 14.0000 claims lianbury, of Plough-court, Lombard.street, to daughtar of the lute John Sanderson, of the OW Jewry. h po p On the 10th inst., at St. Clement's Vanes, lr. ' l , tsg Y vm oge l sey, of Cook's -court, Carey-street, to Elizabeth 1 ‘ 14 " 4 " s, dauglitor of the Iste Thomas Dells Esq RedstworztreB---- ... MOW' e. 0. "y 5 O I) Ia„ U O ° ti 9 A „ 11 (I 0 O 0° v 0 O 0 0 • 68 0 • d a 4 4 " 9 0 0 " 9 0 U • ° 0 U 0 ° I)U a 0 ° t • ° oa lU ° ° o a__ 0 0 ti - L ° • ° Wheat, English, per --- Scotch Irish , ----Ditto (wh to _ Foreign re) ..........~...••••••••••• —Foreign( bond) —.Canath. (free) . Oats, English and Scotch -- Irish Barley, Malting, per Imp. --- Grinding, per dOths. Beans, English, per Imp. qr. .......—. I ris Flour, Amer., sweat, (bond), per ditto, English, fine, per Irish, ditto Oatmeal, I..glittb, per V4tilbs.. Irish Indian Corn, per Imp. quarter......... Malt, per Imp. Pease, le.nglish white, per Intlxlr• Rye DIEM On the 21st inst., Captain John Richard s, maul 1 86 " 'l' nucleon's Bay Company ' s service, aged 68. 1-.., 1 ,,, gr. (h di i e 9 th ilnt, at Great &eaden, ne:r usinw' ill- John Whitechurch, aged SI. nfal On the 20th inst.,. at Greenwich, a fier 4 long and lie ' ness, Mr. Richard Kendall, aged 243 ' On the 22d init., at his house, John-sut et, lictiford-O' Sarah Susanna, the lady of 141 r. MUD LIS WillYber, il±:it:. - _ - --- "."........ ca Priuteel and lCebikhati by lii• YOUG , at the tiof -0"J No, 11g, SUAND.